This edition of TWiS is actually put together while I’m watching SAP Mentor Monday, a special edition for the unveiling of Hugh MacLeod’s “Freaking (Fucking) Amazing” picture in a SAP main meeting area in Palo Alto.

In other news, we’ve obviously still had some fallout from the SAP/Oracle TomorrowNow case. Are these two items linked? Maybe they are… maybe the ruling -despite whether SAP appeals or not- will spur them on to be even more “freaking amazing”. I’m getting carried away.

• It certainly was the week of the SAP/Oracle roundups. Some a more worthwhile read than others. I won’t talk about the latter, so let’s start with CIO’s Thomas Wailgum, who writes: “Justice is supposed to be blind, but public opinion certainly isn’t. While SAP might have more likeability than does Oracle, it doesn’t absolve SAP executives from paying for their sins.“.
• I also liked Thomas Otter’s shakespearean take on the TomorrowNow ruling: “Coming out of this, I’d hope that software developers think a little bit more about intellectual property and IT law generally.“
• an interesting Computerwoche article by PAC’s Tobias Ortwein nudges the topic a little more towards the difference between US and continental european IP culture (english version here).
• Seeking Alpha’s Dennis Byron continues his SAP bish-bash-bosh and drowns a few SAP follower kittens by aiming at Shai Agassi, but praises him for his work re the Netweaver platform. Huh.
• Dennis Howlett spotted a reinvigoration of the maintenance topic during his visit at the SAP UK & Ireland user group.
• RedMonk’s James Governor with an excellent piece on openness, HTML5, news firewalls and the power of developers. He links to Apple Enterprise page and its strange statement (which always puzzled me) and -most of all- he mentions “Die Zeit”, my favourite Online and Print paper.
• oh, and did you know, “River is out and available”. Ethan Jewett’s comment says it all…
• Silicon.de’s take on Snabe speech during SAP UK&I conference in Manchester: “Fun in less than 7 minutes”. Yes, he’s still talking SAP (english translation here).

If I can tweet it there, I’ll tweet it – anywhere…

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